For An Informed Ambedkar Age
டி. அருள் எழிலன் (T Arul Ezhilan) “உன் இனத்தவனிடமிருந்து வட்டி வாங்காதே. பணத்துக்காகவோ, தானியத்துக்காகவோ கடனாகக் கொடுத்த எந்த பொருளுக்காகவோ வட்டி வாங்காதே. வேற்று இனத்தவனிடமிருந்து நீ வட்டி வாங்கலாம். ஆனால், நீ உடைமையாக்கிக் கொள்ளப்போகும் நாட்டில், நீ மேற்கொள்ளும் செயல்களில் எல்லாம், உன் கடவுளாகிய ஆண்டவர் உனக்கு ஆசி வழங்கும் பொருட்டு உன் இனத்தானிடம் வட்டி வாங்காதே” என்கிறது திருவிவிலியத்தின் பழைய ஏற்பாடு. தனிச்சொத்து துவங்கிய காலம் தொட்டு வட்டிமுறையும் …
Dr. Y. Srinivasa Rao Dalits in India are mostly poor. However, there is a sizable middle class and very few rich. Poor and rich categories are not the point of discussion here, and neither is the entire Dalit middle class. The focus here is on the ‘Educated Dalit Middle Class’, that has failed to …
Rajanikanta Gochhayat Representation simply means acting and representing opinion/interest on behalf of the people. In the Indian context, Representation is divided into two categories: one, leadership from a reserved constituency and two, leadership from an unreserved constituency. Here, we would like to discuss the leadership emerging from the reserved constituencies by applying two models …
Auwn Gurmani Recently, a video was making the rounds, wherein a ponytailed man wearing glasses could be seen slapping a hapless man at the shrine of Bahaudin Zakariya. This man was Syed Mureed Hussain Shah, brother of Shah Mehmood Qureshi who is the vice chairman of Pakistan’s Tehreek-e-insaaf (the major opposition party in the Parliament). Qureshi’s …
P Victor Vijay Kumar That was a silent breath of wind, passing both of us, at midnight under the big banyan tree in the exhausted, hustling bustling metro city of Delhi. “A Brahmin is like Plastic. We don’t want him but many a time we need him. We know he contaminates everything but we …
Sujit Nikalje Support and Contibute for reclaiming the awarded Land at Maharashtra Lalit Babar, Social Activist is fighting to reclaim the Awarded Land (Vatan Land) to SCs and NTs from the Maharashtra state government. During the Colonial Rule in India, Mahar, scheduled caste and Ramoshi, Nomadic Tribe in Maharashtra were given 528000 acre of Awarded …
Asha Kowtal The swift changes in the political landscape and the challenges faced by women human rights defenders often pushes us Dalit women into a vortex of greater insecurity, fear and anxiety. The severe pushback by both state and non-state actors has increased the complexity within Dalit women’s movement building and caste-gender research domains. …
S. Kumar The next state assembly elections for Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh (HP) are due in the coming months. The election in HP is scheduled on 9 Nov’17 and result will be declared on 18 Dec’17. The state has about 5 million registered voters. Further, the election in Gujarat will be held across 28,639 …
Maitreyee Shukla & Asmita Kundu When the #MeToo campaign started, we saw a floodgate being opened. Women tried hard to sum up their painful and often self-triggering experiences of sexual harassment within a hashtag as it garnered unconditional and explicit support from the stalwarts of feminism. Yet, to some of us, it felt unfair …